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Taylor's Frozen-in Hypothesis for Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and Solar Wind

Plasma Physics 2024-06-19 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Fluid Dynamics Space Physics

Abstract

In hydrodynamics, Taylor's frozen-in hypothesis connects the wavenumber spectrum to the frequency spectrum of a time series measured in real space. In this paper, we generalize Taylor's hypothesis to magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. We analytically derive one-point two-time correlation functions for Els\"{a}sser variables whose Fourier transform yields the corresponding frequency spectra, E±(f) E^\pm(f) . We show that E±(f)U0B02/3 E^\pm(f) \propto |{\bf U}_0 \mp {\bf B}_0|^{2/3} in Kolmogorov-like model, and E±(f)(B0U0B0)1/2 E^\pm(f) \propto (B_0 |{\bf U}_0 \mp {\bf B}_0|)^{1/2} in Iroshnikov-Kraichnan model, where U0,B0 {\bf U}_0, {\bf B}_0 are the mean velocity and mean magnetic fields respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2204.12790,
  title  = {Taylor's Frozen-in Hypothesis for Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and Solar Wind},
  author = {Mahendra K. Verma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12790},
  year   = {2024}
}

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